TMI Coatings Blog

TMI Coatings concrete coating division removed old floor paint from 6,000 sq. ft. and installed a clear epoxy sealer/dustproofer. All areas were shot blasted to remove the old paint and to prepare for the new coating adhesion. The crews took care to hand grind all the edges near walls where the shot blaster couldn’t reach. [...]

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An animal feed manufacturer was doing some facility updates and was trying to decide between dairy tile, which he currently has in the plant, and a seamless floor topping. The owners choose the cementitious urethane floor topping because of the low maintenance and high durability. TMI Coatings began work just nine days after the brand [...]

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A car dealership hired TMI Coatings in May of 2007 to remove existing flooring material and install a new 1/8” thick chemical resistant epoxy flooring system. TMI proceeded to remove existing layers of flooring to ensure new flooring adhesion. TMI used our PrepMaster with five rotating diamond heads to remove the old thick-film existing flooring. [...]

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TMI Coatings was contacted by a manufacturing facility in the upper Midwest that produces parts for hydraulics. This facility is very oily and dirty. The company is working on lean manufacturing and contacted TMI to coat the ceilings and floors. The ceiling was very oily and dirty due to the machining process. TMI hand cleaned/solvent [...]

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A Wisconsin manufacturer of food products was having problems with water running out of rooms and forming puddles in the center of their Clean Room. This excess water developed into a potential slipping hazard for employees. TMI solved this problem by sloping floors toward existing drains making it easier to clean and drain efficiently. We [...]

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Meyers Printing, a promotional products printer located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, had a very old and unattractive floor in the production area of their print shop. The vinyl tiles were outdated, worn and ugly. TMI removed the tiles and installed an epoxy floor coating to improve the aesthetics, as well as make floor much easier to clean. [...]

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A casino in North Dakota was having problems with their hotel pool deck that became very slippery when wet.  They also had carpeting in some areas around the pool that was continuously wet and musty.  After the carpet was removed from the pool deck, TMI prepared the surfaces by mechanically abrading and applied CHEM-RESIST epoxy [...]

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TMI Coatings recently completed floor restoration for a leading manufacturer of test contactors used for semiconductor production testing.  The floors in their machine shop and manufacturing area had large cracks and divots needing repair. The customer wanted to have the floors repaired and coated to create a cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing floor for the people [...]

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TMI Coatings recently installed cementitious urethane flooring at a fully automated, state-of-the-art frozen vegetable processing facility in Minnesota. The existing epoxy flooring in the plant was peeling and flaking.  The Operations Manager said that he didn’t think the epoxy flooring was the right material for the environment.  They have cementitious urethane flooring in other areas [...]

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A Minnesota college was encountering water problems with water leaking into their building and flooding an electrical control room located in the basement.  The water was penetrating through the concrete slab located next to the building and through the brick building wall. The TMI Coatings team applied a traffic deck coating to the raised concrete platform, [...]

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